Re: [ubuntu-uk] Learning Ubuntu....

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Betteridge
I approve of this wild topic drift :) On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Quite right, none of this Unix nonsense... we used to have VML and God knows what else... oh, I guess we'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A quick warning if you're trying out Windows 7

2009-02-27 Thread Ian Betteridge
Betteridge i...@ianbetteridge.co.ukwrote: You KNOW I have a memory like a sieve! Didn't I meet you at some point? ;) On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/25 Ian Betteridge i...@ianbetteridge.co.uk: Yep, but worth a reminder - I'd forgotten

[ubuntu-uk] A quick warning if you're trying out Windows 7

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Betteridge
I wiped my tiny remaining Windows partition last night to replace it with the beta of Windows 7 (it's only taken me a month to get around to having a play). It's nice, but nothing that exciting - just basically Windows Vista done better. But, if you're installing and also have Ubuntu installed,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A quick warning if you're trying out Windows 7

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Betteridge
Yep, but worth a reminder - I'd forgotten! :) On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2009/2/25 Ian Betteridge i...@ianbetteridge.co.uk: First, it merrily wipes your master boot record, which means you'll need to reinstall GRUB to get access to your Ubuntu install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A quick warning if you're trying out Windows 7

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Betteridge
You KNOW I have a memory like a sieve! Didn't I meet you at some point? ;) On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/25 Ian Betteridge i...@ianbetteridge.co.uk: Yep, but worth a reminder - I'd forgotten! :) Well done, Penfold. ;¬) -- Liam Proven

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gmail downtime (was: is list working?)

2009-02-24 Thread Ian Betteridge
I was really hoping it would stretch out to nine hours outage, at which point it would be past the SLA :) On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Steve Garton sheepeating...@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk wrote: Simon Wears wrote: It cut out at 9.30am GMT this morning. I didn't notice it. Simon Wears

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gmail downtime (was: is list working?)

2009-02-24 Thread Ian Betteridge
I was hoping for a free Google bicycle :) On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2009/2/24 Ian Betteridge i...@ianbetteridge.co.uk: I was really hoping it would stretch out to nine hours outage, at which point it would be past the SLA :) At which point you'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-02-02 Thread Ian Betteridge
Including itself. I suspect someone may have typed Google into Google, and that can break the Internet, as every IT manager knows. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:01 PM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Simon Wears wrote: Google had about a 15 minute period where it flagged the entire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Im buying a new phone!! How compatible are android and Ubuntu?

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Betteridge
After a bit of fiddling, I managed to get Ubuntu talking to my iPhone 3G's music library last night - including getting it to show up as a device in Amarok 1.4 (it doesn't work in Amarok 2 - known bug in Amarok, apparently). It's four-step process: 1. Jailbreak the phone. 2. Edit one of the XML

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Im buying a new phone!! How compatible are android and Ubuntu?

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Betteridge
Nice! The iTunes DB updating is the bit that I'm most interested in - everything else can either be done over the air or via USB mounting. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Paul Sladen ubu...@paul.sladen.org wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ian Betteridge wrote: The only problem is managing it under

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Betteridge
was connected. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com wrote: Ian, out of curiosity, what laptop do you have? If I iunderstood right with built in 3g? On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:22, Ian Betteridge i...@ianbetteridge.co.uk wrote: The built-in 3G modem in my Dell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Betteridge
IIRC from researching this a while ago, some dongles used to require quite a bit of fiddling to get working. Some of the USB sticks included both the modem itself and a flash drive which contained the Windows (and sometimes Mac) drivers - very convenient on those platforms, but unfortunately not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Ian Betteridge
The built-in 3G modem in my Dell was recognised under 8.10, and works perfectly. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com wrote: I've READ it works well, but I haven't tried it personally. Simon On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:05, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mac Frustration (was Remote support was Sad but true? etc.)

2009-01-18 Thread Ian Betteridge
It lets you use Ubuntu on a Mac a little more easily :) (The crtl key was, iirc, added around 1986, when Apple started to bring out networking and terminal programmes which required it, usually for connecting to a mainframe. Insignia SoftPC, which let you run DOS apps on Macs, and so required a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beards and sandals (was: Hampshire)

2009-01-16 Thread Ian Betteridge
Thankfully, free software has slightly more respectable looking poster boys these days! - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I know what you mean about the beard and sandals. Just look at a picture of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sad but true? From the Register

2009-01-16 Thread Ian Betteridge
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: As I recently wrote on the sounder list: Adobe are entirely aware of the existence of Ubuntu, and we are expressly forbidden from distributing Flash in this manner. Unless you want Ubuntu to be distributed only from a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unsuscrib

2009-01-15 Thread Ian Betteridge
I'm not going to point out that refering to someone as the bird like that is patronising and sexist. Oh not. Not for my first post to the list. Oh dear, I just did... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/